Henry Robinson Luce (April 3, 1898 – February 28, 1967), was an American
magazine magnate who was called "the most influential private citizen in
the America of his day". He launched and closely supervised a stable of
magazines that transformed journalism and the reading habits of upscale
Americans. Time summarized and interpreted the week's news; Life
was a picture magazine of politics, culture, and society that dominated
American visual perceptions in the era before television; Fortune
explored in depth the economy and the world of business, introducing to
executives avant-garde ideas such as Keynesianism; and Sports
Illustrated explored the motivations and strategies of sports teams
and key players. Counting his radio projects and newsreels, Luce created
the first multimedia corporation. He was born in China to missionary
parents. He envisaged that the United States would achieve world
hegemony, and, in 1941, he declared the 20th century would be the
"American Century". (Click
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A missionary deals with all the important people in the community, but
he's never really one of them.

Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with
the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in
foresight.

Do you want a cheap, shallow, provincial America? Or do you want an
America where the ideal of excellence is at home?

Everything we know, from the atom to the stars, calls us to leave our
comfortable habitations which no longer comfort us, and to strike forth
on a pilgrimage to a new civilization

I do not know any problem in journalism which can be usefully isolated
from the profoundest questions of man's fate.

Not much longer shall we have time for reading lessons of the past. An
inexorable present calls us to the defense of a great future.

People in America are, for the most part, poorly informed.

Publishing is a business, but journalism never was and is not
essentially a business. Nor is it a profession.

Show me a man who claims he is objective and I'll show you a man with
illusions.

The American daydream has ended- or at least we are seeing the end of
the American lead-pipe cinch.

There are men who can write poetry, and there are men who can read
balance sheets. The men who can read balance sheets cannot write.

Time should make enemies and Life should make friends.

We have thought, and we think, that there is a world of meaning still to
be realized from the principles which gave this country birth. A world
of meaning for us and, equally, a wealth of meaning for the world.